Haunt of Fear #28

(November-December 1954)

In Memoriam (Table of Contents)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Albert B. Feldstein

Letters:

Typeset

Content Information

Synopsis:

Notice of cancellation of New Trend titles.

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Indexer Notes

Inside front cover.

The Prude (Table of Contents)

The Witch's Cauldron! / comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Carl Wessler

Pencils:

Graham Ingels

Inks:

Graham Ingels

Colors:

Marie Severin

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

Characters:

The Old Witch (host)

Synopsis:

A man in an adulterous relationship deals with the guilt of his mistresses' suicide by campaigning against all forms of public affection until he finally has a law passed requiring separate cemeteries for men and women. The good women will not stand for this however, and they unbury themselves during the night to rebury themselves next to their mates. At first he doesn't believe the gravedigger when he relates what is happening so he stays in the cemetery at night and observes them rise. His former mistress drags him back into her grave.

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Numbskull (Table of Contents)

The Vault of Horror! / comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Carl Wessler

Pencils:

Bernard Krigstein

Inks:

Bernard Krigstein

Colors:

Marie Severin

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

Characters:

The Vault-Keeper (host)

Synopsis:

This story is told by the skull of a sadistic animal trapper in Africa who traps animals only in order to inflict pain on them before he kills them. One day he falls victim to one of his own pit traps and as various sorts of animals gather round, the ants strip his flesh clean.

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A Collector's E.C. Check-List (Table of Contents)

text article / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Carl Wessler

Letters:

Typeset

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Indexer Notes

List of Titles, issues numbers and dates of New Trend crime and horror titles.

Audition (Table of Contents)

Haunt of Fear / comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Carl Wessler

Pencils:

Jack Kamen

Inks:

Jack Kamen

Colors:

Marie Severin

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

Characters:

The Old Witch (host)

Synopsis:

One girl so desperately wants to be in Phil Vitale's all-girl orchestra that she is willing to kill herself so he gives her a lethal injection that makes her into a zombie. She assumes that they are all zombies and she doesn't care because she still wants to be in the band, and in a way, she gets her wish as they turn out to be Phil Vitale's all-ghoul orchestra.

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500 Teeth (Table of Contents)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Credits

Script:

Albert B. Feldstein

Letters:

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A Work of Art! (Table of Contents)

The Crypt of Terror / comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Credits

Script:

Carl Wessler

Pencils:

Jack Davis

Inks:

Jack Davis

Colors:

Marie Severin

Letters:

?

Content Information

Genre:

Horror

Characters:

The Crypt-Keeper (host)

Synopsis:

A man is so unsatisfied with the commercial attitudes of his fellow morticians, including that of the son-in-law he fruitlessly tried to impart a sense of art, that he builds his own robot mortician to euthanize him and do a job he himself would be proud of.

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